#without being super hurtful about it?

[domesticmail]

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[sealer-of-wenkamui]

Just wanted to say that while I’m not personally really into the rape/sexual assault aspect that was so clearly being implied with “bloody bedchamber”, I am 100% on your side that it profoundly undermines Mohg as a character to take that from him under the aegis of “Miquella charmed him!” Frankly the DLC really did some serious damage to Mohg AND his faction with the whole “charming”, as it’s just really… removing a LOT of their weight/agency in the narrative for way too many players.

(Oh that’s completely understandable, I just like to point out my personal enjoyment of it because of how many people act like it’s a dealbreaker for liking Mohg, while on the contrary it was one of the very reasons I was interested in his character to begin with)

And yeah, it’s exactly as you say, his implied sexual abuse (or at the very least, a violation of Miquella’s body that reads as a pretty clear parallel to it) of Miquella is a major part of his character. You can look at his upbringing and see how he might end up with a warped perception of love, where if he wants to be loved he has to take it by force, resulting in the situation with Miquella (and he also is forcing Miq to play a role in his dynasty, the unloved abandoned child making a name for himself as a lord, with the one he loves, willingness of anyone involved be damned) So to say ohhh well actually Miquella wanted all that weakens his character so much. It’s just an excuse to avoid the dark implications without caring about what it means for his character, he had plenty of motivation to do that to Miquella to begin with.

And we even seen in game that the charm does not fully mind control people, it simply seems to make them love Miquella, and prevent them from killing him or any other opposition towards him (and they’re self-aware of the charm and hornsent still mentions his distrust of you, and Leda also brings it up that he never placed his full trust in her either. These aren’t even demigods.) No one else exhibits the sort of possessiveness Mohg does towards Miquella, and Mohg’s goals for him were separate from Miquella’s own, wanting to make him a God under the Formless Mother (an outer god, which we’ve seen him oppose because of his sister)

Ansbach is a knight of Mohg so he’s a biased source of info, but I do still hate how the dlc emphasizes Mohg as a victim so much because it further leads people to act like Mohg did nothing wrong.

[lemonyinks]

I didn't like Mekt much but I do hate seeing him only utilized as a villain, as if Legion Worlds didn't happen.

Where is the Mekt who admitted that he was wrong to let his loneliness and jealousy dictate how he acted? Where is the Mekt that worked to be better? Where is the Mekt who welcomed Ayla home and put himself in harms way to help her save their parents farm? Where is the Mekt that delighted at the idea of seeing Garth again and was sad to hear he wasn't really coming back?

I don't know. Maybe it's just me but Mekt works so much better as a character of redemption and reconciliation than as one who stays bitter and antagonistic. He's more interesting that way

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i think one of the things that upsets me the most about velma and shaggy's relationship in sdmi--and boy there is a lot--is that not only is her constantly ''correcting'' him for minor, harmless, and usually completely reasonable things with physical and emotional abuse, well. abusive by itself. but so many of the things he does that she treats him that way over are very autistic things, and what she subjects him to is textbook abuse aimed at autistics in particular. (including the part where she gets more and more pissed whenever attempts at said emotional abuse fly over his head, because he's too bad at picking up cues for them to land fully.)

[cws: anti-autistic ableism, ABA, self-harm, physical and emotional IPV, victim-blaming, and abuse apologism. it's a lot and it's really fucking bad lmao]

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like. there's a lot of examples there; shaggy's behavior coming across as autistic is worth a whole post of its own, and a lot of media depicts abuse targeted at autistic traits because ✨️hooray ableism.✨️but she straight up tries to Fix Him (read: force him to perform a Presentable Personality) by forcing him to wear clothes that are sensory hell, and trying to condition him to self-harm every time he does some small harmless, reflexive thing she thinks is Poor Socialization until he stops. and to catch himself doing it, and punish himself, without being prompted. i cannot fucking overstate how fucked up that is.

they even got down the fun little aspect of ABA where the methods of conditioning-through-pain are presented as toys and kiddish things: she gives him a rubber band to wear on his wrist, and tells him to snap it as hard as he can every time he says 'like.' 🙃🙃🙃🙃

like. this does not begin to scratch the surface of the abuse she puts him through in general. and again, characters being abused for autistic traits with the approval of the narrative is a common thing in media, which sucks. but holy fucking shit! they really took the 'violent ableism that is done to autistics irl' to the next fucking level here!

.......and it's portrayed as kind of cringey, immature teen drama on both sides. the self-harm, his dread over how much he knows it'll hurt, and the extreme pain it causes him to the point of screaming are all supposed to be funny. and her arc is all about learning to accept that she deserves better, because she was repressed and had low self-esteem and therefore putting him through fucking DIY ABA didn't make her happy.

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anyway if you couldn't tell i can't fucking stand sdmi velma and i have a lot of words in me about it. when one of your main heroes would have made a way more compelling villain as they are, on a more mundane level compared to all the wild fantastical shit they go up against, holy shit go back to the drawing board you have fucked up. she could have been genuinely good representation of a marginalized person dealing with the trauma of her experiences in some shitty ways she has to grow past, and an interesting flawed character, without being absolutely despicable--hell, she'd have made a great foil to pericles if they'd handled him decently too. they have a lot of parallels, which only gain more depth when you add their respective parallels with cassidy into the mix. and it really fucking sucks that we got this instead.

[junonreactor]

just did all the party sidequests. that was really cute

[hearts401]

God tssiu au mike makes me ill

[vigilantejustice]

do we think this means one week or two weeks? like. week of jan 8th and also week of jan 15th or is it jan 8th — jan 15th

[holyviolence]

omg i spent the whole day cleaning my entire apartment because my family was coming to visit and 1) so so so happy my adhd is being medicated now it's literally changing my life and 2) i FINALLLY got through to my dad about how he probably has ADHD too!!!!! he finally said Yeah i think i might have adhd. and my mom was like Me too (we've had this talk privately before, she knows she has adhd too lol) And my brother is literally transferring to a different school because he can't concentrate and isn't disciplined at his current uni. adhd family.

[stinkrascal]

i wish i wasnt so squeamish so i could actually enjoy watching horror movies 🤸

[skrunksthatwunk]

jumpscared by least favorite seasonal chore

[munamania]

something that makes me feel guilty is the fact that seeing that persons face rn literally makes me angry. they walked into class and i nearly winced. and in all fairness they were quite kind to me. outside of the several kind of odd red flags. girl whatever. to be quite frank i am a horny bastard and vocal proud etc but few people interest me enough to actually want to hang out with and get to know And i have deep seated intimacy issues so it's like. we really dont have a shot unless the circumstances r exactly right on a full moon perfect thursday of a month etc like. well and tbh i probably would have fucked around with this person but i dont... care... about some big relationship w them.. and i know i could be a relationship girl like eventually i have it in me to have a muse that's what im built for i think idc but not rn... rn i need to hang out with my friends and do my film stuff and have people that maybe wanna make out sometimes is that so much to ask for. for a lesbian at a bar to want to make out perhaps. ** for there to be lesbians at the bars to potentially make out with.

[shararan]

tfw you cant write because no manner of seating arrangement currently works without major pain and your body feels like its about to fall apart into pieces jfc if it aint the neck its the shoulders or lower back or elbows

[transgender-catboy]

I love my friends

[lilgynt]

still sobbing my eyes so never having a weed free night again

[713-4th-ward-g]

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[rosicheeks]

hiiiiii uh this may be a bit off of my usual format but just wanted to share: last night i had my first time wearing a dress in public, at a gathering with some other trans and queer people, and despite a little anxiety bc of everything going on with regards to trans people rn, i had a lot of fun and took comfort in looking good and being around people like me 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 and i wanted to share a little happiness in the gender euphoria <3

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